AGENDA DAY 1.

Richard Askam spent 30 years working in the Wine Business before he took a career turn in 2010 to launch the first personalised champagne gifts in the UK as an antidote to the commoditisation of the wine market in the UK. Ultimately, this lead him to the doors of Coca-Cola where he created and executed the online ShareaCoke campaign across Europe in 2014. Over the following 2 years, Richard created similarly successful personalised campaigns for the likes of Unilever, Barclays, Vodafone and McVities before becoming a renowned full time speaker, debuting as a TED Talker in 2017 and he has worked extensively across the world for the likes of HP, Xerox, Canon and many more. Richard is a master of conversation, an invaluable skill in a world where businesses have to adapt to the conversation of their customers, and over the last few years has become an accomplished host and MC for business events both online and in person!

Bonnie Kintzer, President and CEO, TMB, a Board Member of SILVERspac and Thryv, and Chairman of the Board of Reader's Digest Foundation, USA Bonnie is the President and Chief Executive Officer of TMB (Trusted Media  Brands), the world’s leading community-driven entertainment company powered by  content that’s inspired and created by its fans. Authentic to the core, TMB shines the  spotlight on amazing people and moments to fuel the passions and pastimes of more  than 200 million consumers worldwide. TMB’s properties include FailArmy, The Pet Collective, Taste of Home, Family  Handyman, Reader’s Digest, People are Awesome, Birds & Blooms and WeatherSpy.  The company reaches more than 250 million social media users and delivers more than  two billion minutes of monthly video viewership across streaming TV and social media. Kintzer has led a bold transformation of the company as part of a broader growth  strategy to transform TMB into a video and digital-first company with a portfolio of brands consumers trust. Under Kintzer’s leadership, the company acquired streaming  and social video powerhouse Jukin Media and enjoyed impressive organic growth  including the doubling of overall digital reach. Kintzer also spearheaded TMB’s  launching new direct-to-consumer products such as MyDiyUniversity.com Taste of  Home’s Cookware and Bakeware, and Family Handyman digital project plans. Kintzer, who holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Clark  University, is Chairperson of the Reader’s Digest Foundation. She serves as a member  of the Board of Directors for Thryv (Nasdaq: THRY) and SilverSpac (Nasdaq:SLVRU).

Juan Señor is the President of INNOVATION Media Consulting Group in London - one the world's leading news media consultancies. He has worked with and advised hundreds of media companies on every continent directing transformative projects. He also serves on the advisory board of several media groups.  He is also a former Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford.  He has been listed as one of 'The World's Leading Innovators' in Journalism and Media' by Journalism UK. Mr. Señor is a highly-sought commentator on the media industry, speaking at global forums and quoted frequently in leading publications such as The Economist and The Financial Times.   He is co-editor of two annuals books; Innovation in News Media and Innovation in Media, written on behalf of WAN-IFRA and the FIPP respectively. Altogether he has edited 32 books.  He worked for seven years as a war and conflict reporter for PBS's NewsHour. He then became a presenter for EBN-Wall Street Journal TV and CNBC Europe. And he served as London correspondent of International Herald Tribune Television then owned by The New York Times and The Washington Post.  His work has been nominated for an EMMY and his television programme, Media Report, was voted by viewers as Europe’s Best Business Programme.  He continues to work as a live event and television host and presenter. He has hosted the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for 14 years, Reinvention Festival for a decade, and dozens of public speaking engagements every year as a keynote speaker or moderator.  In addition to his passion for the media business, he is a campaigner for disabilities via means of fundraising expeditions to the ends of the earth.   He has skied unsupported to the North Pole, crossed the Western Sahara, trekked the Amazon, and organised the first-ever expedition to the South Pole of a team with physical disabilities. A Spanish national, he was born and raised in Barcelona and educated in Europe and New York. He is conversant in six languages.

Yulia Petrossian Boyle is Vice President at Disney’s DMED Division, responsible for NatGeo Global Media Partnerships, Image Collection, and Content Operations. She leads the strategy for NatGeo’s global media activities in 55 countries and 30 local languages, oversees the transformation of NatGeo iconic Image Collection archive into the best-in-class digital asset management system, and is in charge of NatGeo Media content operations and talent relations. Yulia has been instrumental in rapid global expansion of the National Geographic media properties, overseeing launches of NG magazines media and books for adults and kids across the globe since 2007. Forming strategic partnership with world’s leading media companies, Yulia has been successful in conceptualizing and launching many high-revenue, new-format publishing products, including special interest publications, such as NG History, Kids Collectibles, Travel, Adventure, Food NG magazine brand extensions, as well as bi-lingual kids “edutainment” products globally. Yulia, who is fluent in English, Armenian and Russian, has had a 23-year career in media and international business development. Before joining National Geographic, she worked for Macmillan Publishing, UK, where she launched a joint venture with a local publishing house in Armenia, assisting in the winning World Bank Tender to publish curricula textbooks, expanding Macmillan’s offerings in the South Caucasus and Central Asia. She also worked as a reporter for Ukraine’s largest English-language newspaper, the Kyiv Post, and oversaw the rebranding and launch of a popular women’s weekly targeting Ukraine’s professional women, as its publisher. Boyle has also launched and managed the British Council (BC) operations in Armenia and supervised the first ever Royal Visit to Armenia in the framework of BC’s cultural exchange programs. In January 2022 Yulia was appointed as the new Chair of FIPP, world’s oldest and largest global media membership association. Yulia has also served on the Board of Nikkei National Geographic Joint Venture since 2014. Boyle holds a master’s degree in public management and comparative international affairs from Indiana University, Bloomington. She has a bachelor’s degree in English language and U.S./U.K. studies.

Having held various positions in his 12-year stint at the BBC, James Hewes was part of the team that sold the business to private equity in November 2011. He was then Publishing Director for Top Gear, Good Food, Easy Cook and Lonely Planet Magazine and a Director of BBC Haymarket Exhibitions. He spent five years in Dubai, running Gulf News Publishing and responsible for more than 30 product areas. He launched the group’s first consumer brand in Arabic – wheels Arabic. Appointed President & CEO of FIPP in September 2017, he joined from The Art Newspaper, having been Interim CEO since December 2016. He is also a member of the Advisory Board at Dojoko, an education-focused start-up and a member of Oxford Brookes University’s Journalism Advisory Board. Day speakers

Richard Askam spent 30 years working in the Wine Business before he took a career turn in 2010 to launch the first personalised champagne gifts in the UK as an antidote to the commoditisation of the wine market in the UK. Ultimately, this lead him to the doors of Coca-Cola where he created and executed the online ShareaCoke campaign across Europe in 2014. Over the following 2 years, Richard created similarly successful personalised campaigns for the likes of Unilever, Barclays, Vodafone and McVities before becoming a renowned full time speaker, debuting as a TED Talker in 2017 and he has worked extensively across the world for the likes of HP, Xerox, Canon and many more. Richard is a master of conversation, an invaluable skill in a world where businesses have to adapt to the conversation of their customers, and over the last few years has become an accomplished host and MC for business events both online and in person!

Jess has over 20 years content production experience working for a number of national and international publishers and media companies. Her expertise ranges from creating and developing conference programmes to social media, blogs and targeted email campaigns to increase and drive engagement for business audiences. More recently, she has been involved in assisting publishers on developing new revenue streams through licensing and content-driven solutions and opportunities.

John has been the Chief Digital Officer at William Reed since June 2020 and is responsible for driving digital transformation across the business. William Reed was the 2021 AOP UK digital publisher of the year. Prior to William Reed John was Managing Director of Sloop Media.

He was the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at Infopro Digital following its acquisition of the Incisive Media Insight Group in spring 2017. Infopro was named UK digital publisher of the year twice during this time.

Prior to this he held the same role at Incisive Media and was responsible for driving change in its digital strategy and delivery globally across the group. During this time Incisive Media was named UK digital publisher of the year a record four times.

He was Chairman of the AOP from 2010 to 2015 and remains a non Executive director of the organisation.

He was Managing director of VNU Business Publications prior to Incisive Media acquiring it in 2007. He has over 30 years experience in B2B Media.

John has a wealth of experience in paywalls and meters, lead generation, ABM, online and hybrid events and content strategies, ad and martech and continuous payment models.

Katarzyna works as a Editor-in-Chief of Glamour Poland. She has been working as a journalist and editor for 20 years. She has a great experience in creating content for luxury brands, ex. InStyle, Gala, Glamour. Under her leadership Glamour has turned into a magazine that is the voice of young women and Gen Z in Poland.

Shirish is an award-winning journalist and researcher with 25 years’ experience working in all the UK’s major broadcast newsrooms, and at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. He now works across a range of innovation and inclusion projects, spanning community engagement, AI, modular journalism and mental health - all aimed at building more effective, engaging and trusted content.

Mbali Soga spent 10 years working with TRUELOVE in various roles, including as editor between 2017 and 2022. In 2019, the vision and new direction that she brought to TRUELOVE captured the attention of FIPP and UPM, who named Mbali as the overall winner of their Rising Stars Award.

Local and international advertising and marketing authorities also took note. Over the past two years, during her time as Head of Content at South Africa's no.1 online fashion retailer, Superbalist.com, Mbali worked on two Loerie award-winning campaigns as well as one Effie award-winning campaign.

Mbali’s eye for style and her knowledge of our local design community made her an essential part of the Superbalist team that created the corporate uniform for SA's newest airline, LIFT. She was also on the creative team that brought you the hottest retail collaboration with visual artist Lulama Wolf.

Now, after a year stretching her wings in the digital space, Mbali is back at TRUELOVE to lead this exciting new part of our journey, where she takes on the role of Editor-in-Chief.

Mbali represents the journey of, and has gathered lessons about, why content and storytelling are the foundation of what makes the world go round.

Damian Radcliffe is a journalist, researcher, and professor based at the University of Oregon. He is also a three-time Knight News Innovation Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, an Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture Studies (JOMEC), and a life fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). In Spring 2023, he will be a Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.

With over 25 years of experience in the media industry, Damian has worked in editorial, strategic, research, policy and teaching roles in the USA, Middle East and UK. He has worked across all platforms (audio, TV, digital and print) and all media sectors (commercial, public, community and non-profit, regulatory and academia). He continues to be an active journalist, writing regular features for Digital Content Next, the International Journalists' Network (IJNet), What's New in Publishing, journalism.co.uk and other outlets. His work focuses on digital trends, social media, technology, the business of media, and the evolution - and practice - of journalism.

As an analyst, researcher and trainer, he has worked with a wide range of additional industry and academic organizations including the BBC World Service, Facebook, FIPP, INMA, Thomson Reuters Foundation, World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the United Nations. He has been quoted on issues relating to digital media and journalism by major outlets such as AFP, BBC News, Business Insider, Editor & Publisher, NPR, The New York Times, Snapchat, Wired and Voice of America. As a freelance journalist, his work has been published by leading publications and trade outlets such as the BBC, Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), Harvard’s Nieman Lab, HuffPost, PBS MediaShift, Poynter, TheMediaBriefing and ZDNet.

Originally from the UK, Damian lives on the west coast of the US with his wife and three young children. He holds a BA in Modern History and MA (Oxon) from the University of Oxford.

Preethi Nallu is a journalist, film-maker, press freedom advocate and global director at Report for the World, part of the Groundtruth Project. She was a founding editor at News Deeply. Born in Iran, raised in India, Preethi's career spans 14 countries across the global north and south. She has researched, reported and campaigned about humanitarian and media development issues. Her films and reports won two Webby awards, two Migration Media awards, and a Human Rights Press Award. Preethi has worked for mainstream media outlets such as Al Jazeera English and Foreign Policy, global think tanks such as Chatham House, and led multimedia campaigns for the UN and global NGOs such as the Norwegian Refugee Council and International Media Support (IMS). In her last role as co-editor at Mediabridge, supported by IMS, she created a digital platform with an Indian design team, &all, and facilitated partnerships between media of different sizes.

Lance Johnson, CEO, Recurrent, and Operating Partner, North Equity, USA Lance Johnson is the CEO of Recurrent. He joined the company in 2019 as an Operating Partner to help oversee and integrate North Equity’s digital media acquisitions. Lance was named CEO in June 2021 when North introduced Recurrent as the new parent company to its growing media portfolio. Under his leadership, the company has expanded to nearly 25 digital media brands and over 300 employees while tripling its YoY revenue. Prior to joining North Equity, he was the Head of Corporate Development of MIH Naspers in Silicon Valley, where he focused on group M&A activities and building portfolio-company relationships in the United States. MIH Holdings is the financial subsidiary of Naspers, the multimedia. Naspers is best known for its investment in Tencent in China and is also the parent company of Media24 in South Africa. Lance has more than 20 years of global business experience as an investor and operator in media and technology. As an angel investor and advisor in Europe and the United States, his experience has helped him enable startups to effectively build teams, scale operations, and grow revenue. His investment portfolio has included Molekule, Salt Security, Unsplash, The Athletic, Perkbox, and more. Additional executive experience in media includes roles with Nokia in New York and Yahoo’s mobile media business in Munich and London, as well as consulting with Viacom and Amdocs. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics (with honors) from Trinity University in Texas and completed further study at the University of Freiburg in Germany, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He splits his time between Miami, FL, and Boulder, CO.

Brian Morrissey, Founder, The Rebooting, USA Brian Morrissey is the founder of The Rebooting, a publication focused on the methods of building sustainable media businesses. Until October 2020, he was the president and editor-in-chief of Digiday Media, a vertical media company that has titles covering media and marketing (Digiday), fashion and beauty (Glossy) and retail (Modern Retail). At Digiday, he was responsible for all editorial across the brands, memberships, product, events programming and design. Prior to joining Digiday in 2011, he was digital editor at Adweek for six years. He’s spent two decades in digital media.

Richard Askam spent 30 years working in the Wine Business before he took a career turn in 2010 to launch the first personalised champagne gifts in the UK as an antidote to the commoditisation of the wine market in the UK. Ultimately, this lead him to the doors of Coca-Cola where he created and executed the online ShareaCoke campaign across Europe in 2014. Over the following 2 years, Richard created similarly successful personalised campaigns for the likes of Unilever, Barclays, Vodafone and McVities before becoming a renowned full time speaker, debuting as a TED Talker in 2017 and he has worked extensively across the world for the likes of HP, Xerox, Canon and many more. Richard is a master of conversation, an invaluable skill in a world where businesses have to adapt to the conversation of their customers, and over the last few years has become an accomplished host and MC for business events both online and in person!

Jess has over 20 years content production experience working for a number of national and international publishers and media companies. Her expertise ranges from creating and developing conference programmes to social media, blogs and targeted email campaigns to increase and drive engagement for business audiences. More recently, she has been involved in assisting publishers on developing new revenue streams through licensing and content-driven solutions and opportunities.

Tav is a seasoned product executive, having worked in the Silicon Valley tech scene before joining the news industry to build Zetland's distribution platform. Originally a jazz trumpet player, his first tech startup was in pre-school ed-tech, where he led the product ABCiTY from cradle to exit, before joining issuu.com to lead the reading experience teams. He has championed the product innovation mindset at Zetland, where he now tries to instil it across the company as CEO. He also leads the horn section in Zetland’s house band and enjoys renovating his worn-down get-away house in the Danish countryside.

In 2008, she started working at the RBA Group’s Rights Department, under the Collectibles and Partworks Division. She was promoted to manage this business division in 2009 and she finally filled the role of Group Rights and Licensing Director in 2014. In this position, she leads the acquisition of the rights and licenses to the content published by the Group, but also manages the licensing and syndication business.

Prior to that, she was the Rights Director at PDAPF (Planeta Group), the Deputy General Manager at Norma Editorial (the biggest comic publishing house in Spanish) and the Foreign Rights Manager at Círculo de Lectores (Bertelsmann’s book club in Spain).

Born in 1975, Gonçalo started his journalistic career in 1994.  He has written about sports, science, the environment and history. Joining the launching team of the Portuguese edition of National Geographic Magazine in 2001, he served as a deputy editor until 2006. Since then, he is the editor-in-chief.  In January 2022, Gonçalo was also asked to become the editor-in-chief of the Spanish edition of National Geographic. With a PhD in Sociology from the University of Lisbon and a Masters in Communication from the Catholic University of Portugal, he is the author of seven books on the history of Portuguese journalism and risk communication in scientific subjects.  He has written a comic book script and two biographies.

Dan Pacheco is the Peter A. Horvitz Chair of Journalism Innovation at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University and author of the upcoming book, Experimenting With Emerging Media Platforms: Field Testing the Future, (Taylor & Francis / Routledge, launching June 2023). The book is based on an approach and set of exercises Pacheco has developed over the years to help students of journalism, film, public relations and advertising conduct controlled tests of new technologies to solve media-related problems. Pacheco has a long history as an innovator in major media companies. He started his digital career as online producer for Washingtonpost.com, where he produced Interact, one of the first online news communities. Subsequently, as a principal product manager at America Online, he oversaw some of the internet’s first truly global community products. In 2005, after pioneering the first implementation of a social networking platform at a U.S. newspaper, he received an NAA “20 Under 40” award. In 2007, he received a Knight News Challenge grant to build a democratized publishing service that evolved into an eBook platform which he ran as a startup for four years. In 2014, he started and co-produced the USA TODAY NETWORK's Harvest of Change VR project for the Oculus Rift, which was the world’s first large-scale use of virtual reality by a commercial news organization. Harvest of Change earned an Edward R. Murrow Award for its innovative use of 360-degree video for virtual reality.

Gustavo Guzmán is the founder of Driven, a Mexico City-based holding company with interests in media, marketing, sports, culture, design and technology companies. Mr. Guzmán has founded a series of successful media companies in Mexico, the largest Spanish-language market in the Americas. Among them are Capital Digital, a group of Mexico’s leading independent digital sites, specialized in technology, news, music, celebrity and visual explanations. Its brands include Pictoline, Unocero, Sopitas and Local. He founded Máspormás in 09´, the largest free commuter newspaper in Mexico City. He also acquired Swarm, a social- and digital-marketing agency; Chilango, the most popular city magazine in Mexico; and Travesías Media, a travel and luxury-goods media group. Other businesses in Driven’s portfolio include wine-and-food, music and sports events; book publishing, La Increíble bookstore and a mobile  gaming company. A serial entrepreneur since his days as a university student at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mr. Guzman has built and sold a number of technology, telecom and media enterprises in his career. He has advised or worked with Mexican and international venture-capital and private-equity investors, as well as other Latin American media groups. He received his executive MBA from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Gustavo also teaches "Business Models for Creative Industries" in Centro University in Mexico City. Today he runs Capital Digital; the sub-holding company that hosts the groups' media assets.

Previously MD of BILD at Axel Springer, Carolin was appointed to her new position as CEO WELT Group" in late 2022. In July 2020, Carolin Hulshoff Pol took over the position of Managing Director of Axel Springer’s BILD group and is responsible for the development and transformation of Germany’s biggest media brand. As Managing Director of Sales Impact, Carolin is also running Axel Springer’s newspapers distribution and logistics in Germany, what is including as well the newspaper brands DIE WELT and WELT AM SONNTAG. Furthermore, she overlooks Axel Springer’s licensing and syndication business as Managing Director of Axel Springer Syndication. Prior to that, she managed BILD, BILD am SONNTAG, B.Z. as publishing director from 2017-2020 after running several different positions within BILD group, such as BILD’s Regional General Manager in Northern Germany, General Marketing Manager or Managing Director BILD am SONNTAG.  

Damian Radcliffe is a journalist, researcher, and professor based at the University of Oregon. He is also a three-time Knight News Innovation Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, an Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture Studies (JOMEC), and a life fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). In Spring 2023, he will be a Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.

With over 25 years of experience in the media industry, Damian has worked in editorial, strategic, research, policy and teaching roles in the USA, Middle East and UK. He has worked across all platforms (audio, TV, digital and print) and all media sectors (commercial, public, community and non-profit, regulatory and academia). He continues to be an active journalist, writing regular features for Digital Content Next, the International Journalists' Network (IJNet), What's New in Publishing, journalism.co.uk and other outlets. His work focuses on digital trends, social media, technology, the business of media, and the evolution - and practice - of journalism.

As an analyst, researcher and trainer, he has worked with a wide range of additional industry and academic organizations including the BBC World Service, Facebook, FIPP, INMA, Thomson Reuters Foundation, World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the United Nations. He has been quoted on issues relating to digital media and journalism by major outlets such as AFP, BBC News, Business Insider, Editor & Publisher, NPR, The New York Times, Snapchat, Wired and Voice of America. As a freelance journalist, his work has been published by leading publications and trade outlets such as the BBC, Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), Harvard’s Nieman Lab, HuffPost, PBS MediaShift, Poynter, TheMediaBriefing and ZDNet.

Originally from the UK, Damian lives on the west coast of the US with his wife and three young children. He holds a BA in Modern History and MA (Oxon) from the University of Oxford.

Abdullah AlOlayan, a young Saudi entrepreneur who stood against all obstacles in order to achieve his dream. He started his journey at the early age of 18, and entered the media industry as an actor, and social media influencer, this opened the doors for him to act for projects with significant brand names both nationally and internationally such as; Burger King, Riyadh season, MBC, Anoosh, Dose, and Amazon. However, due to the challenges that accompany any emerging market he strived to be the change he wanted to see and aimed to develop the industry alongside himself, and with diverse experiences with communication strategies, content production, and copywriting, Abdullah was then equipped with enough knowledge to take the next step, the birth of Ananas media. The beginning of Ananas followed almost immediately by the global pandemic, but that was not an obstacle that would stop the Ananas media team. Through the perseverance of the Ananas team, Ananas media quickly became very well known in the Saudi market, capable of keeping up with even the biggest international companies such as Geely, Roche, PWC, and many more. All with the initial intention of driving true and positive change within the Saudi market."

Jacob Donnelly is the Publisher at Morning Brew, overseeing the rapidly growing B2B business. In his time there, it has grown from $5 million to over $25 million. He is also the founder of A Media Operator, which is targeted toward media professionals that are building or working on sustainable, audience-first media companies.

Andy is one of the most experienced technology leaders in publishing today, with unrivalled experience in acquiring and creating systems to grow publishing businesses. Andy is leading Hello! and Hola! through an ambitious product portfolio overhaul, building on experience in technology leadership working with brands including The Week, FourFourTwo, What HiFi?, Stuff, Volkswagen Group, the Army, and World Athletics. With more than 15 years experience in senior Technology roles, including steering UK media firm Dennis Publishing to a successful sale to Future PLC, Andrew has a unique insight into building, rebuilding and running media businesses, and building high performing teams and technology.

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Yulia Petrossian Boyle is Vice President at Disney’s DMED Division, responsible for NatGeo Global Media Partnerships, Image Collection, and Content Operations. She leads the strategy for NatGeo’s global media activities in 55 countries and 30 local languages, oversees the transformation of NatGeo iconic Image Collection archive into the best-in-class digital asset management system, and is in charge of NatGeo Media content operations and talent relations. Yulia has been instrumental in rapid global expansion of the National Geographic media properties, overseeing launches of NG magazines media and books for adults and kids across the globe since 2007. Forming strategic partnership with world’s leading media companies, Yulia has been successful in conceptualizing and launching many high-revenue, new-format publishing products, including special interest publications, such as NG History, Kids Collectibles, Travel, Adventure, Food NG magazine brand extensions, as well as bi-lingual kids “edutainment” products globally. Yulia, who is fluent in English, Armenian and Russian, has had a 23-year career in media and international business development. Before joining National Geographic, she worked for Macmillan Publishing, UK, where she launched a joint venture with a local publishing house in Armenia, assisting in the winning World Bank Tender to publish curricula textbooks, expanding Macmillan’s offerings in the South Caucasus and Central Asia. She also worked as a reporter for Ukraine’s largest English-language newspaper, the Kyiv Post, and oversaw the rebranding and launch of a popular women’s weekly targeting Ukraine’s professional women, as its publisher. Boyle has also launched and managed the British Council (BC) operations in Armenia and supervised the first ever Royal Visit to Armenia in the framework of BC’s cultural exchange programs. In January 2022 Yulia was appointed as the new Chair of FIPP, world’s oldest and largest global media membership association. Yulia has also served on the Board of Nikkei National Geographic Joint Venture since 2014. Boyle holds a master’s degree in public management and comparative international affairs from Indiana University, Bloomington. She has a bachelor’s degree in English language and U.S./U.K. studies.

Jonny is c-founder and CEO of Pugpig, the platform that powers mobile apps, websites and digital archives for the world's leading media brands. Prior to launching Pugpig, Jonny was MD, Technology and Product Development at News Corporation’s Digital Media Group, focusing on building new digital brands. This followed three years as CTO at News UK, where he was responsible for technology delivery across the business for The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun newspapers.

Richard Askam spent 30 years working in the Wine Business before he took a career turn in 2010 to launch the first personalised champagne gifts in the UK as an antidote to the commoditisation of the wine market in the UK. Ultimately, this lead him to the doors of Coca-Cola where he created and executed the online ShareaCoke campaign across Europe in 2014. Over the following 2 years, Richard created similarly successful personalised campaigns for the likes of Unilever, Barclays, Vodafone and McVities before becoming a renowned full time speaker, debuting as a TED Talker in 2017 and he has worked extensively across the world for the likes of HP, Xerox, Canon and many more. Richard is a master of conversation, an invaluable skill in a world where businesses have to adapt to the conversation of their customers, and over the last few years has become an accomplished host and MC for business events both online and in person!

Jess has over 20 years content production experience working for a number of national and international publishers and media companies. Her expertise ranges from creating and developing conference programmes to social media, blogs and targeted email campaigns to increase and drive engagement for business audiences. More recently, she has been involved in assisting publishers on developing new revenue streams through licensing and content-driven solutions and opportunities.

Madeleine is Head of International at Poool, The Membership & Subscription Suite, and Editor-in-Chief of The Audiencers, a B2B media for digital publishing professionals, sharing insights and expertise to engage, convert and retain members and subscribers.

Natasha Christie-Miller, CEO of Ascential Intelligence and Non-Executive Director and Chairwoman, Remco, UK Natasha is the CEO of Ascential Intelligence, the information services division at Ascential Plc. She is building these core, high growth products in scale industries delivering high value intelligence and connections for our powerful, professional audiences. She started her career in sales and led the commercial teams on consumer brands such as Elle, Red and the Emap parenting portfolio before taking on the role of Publishing Director of Drapers, the fashion industry bible at Emap B2B in 2005. She then became Managing Director for the Retail portfolio in 2007. Natasha was appointed CEO of EMAP in 2010 and CEO of Ascential Intelligence at Ascential Plc in 2015.

Rafat Ali, CEO and Founder of Skift, and a Board Member of the International Women's Media Foundation, USA Rafat is the CEO and Founder of Skift, the most influential business media company in the global travel sector providing news, research, events and marketing services to key sectors in travel. Previously, he was the founder of paidContent, which he sold to UK's Guardian News and Media in 2008. Prior to that, he was managing editor of Silicon Alley Reporter. Rafat was the Knight Fellow at Indiana University, where he completed his Masters in Journalism, 1999-2000. Prior to that he completed his BSc in Computer Engineering, from AMU in Aligarh, India.

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Jens Mueffelmann, Executive Chairman of Bonnier LLC. Dr. Jens Mueffelmann is a US-/Europe-based investor, and serves on various boards in New York, Silicon Valley, Berlin, Stockholm and Vienna. From 2004 to 2014, he was Chief Digital Officer at Axel Springer. During this time, its digital businesses grew from nothing to more than 50% of group revenues and profits. He was CEO of Axel Springer Digital Ventures from 2014 to 2018 and was also responsible for its entry into the US market. While at Axel Springer, notable transactions included Stepstone, Airbnb, Runtastic, N26, Group Nine, Yad2, Business Insider, Uber and eMarketer, as well as the Classified JV with General Atlantic. Jens has an MEng/MBA from Berlin Institute of Technology and a PhD in Organizational Transformation from a joint research project with Columbia University.  

Brian Morrissey, Founder, The Rebooting, USA Brian Morrissey is the founder of The Rebooting, a publication focused on the methods of building sustainable media businesses. Until October 2020, he was the president and editor-in-chief of Digiday Media, a vertical media company that has titles covering media and marketing (Digiday), fashion and beauty (Glossy) and retail (Modern Retail). At Digiday, he was responsible for all editorial across the brands, memberships, product, events programming and design. Prior to joining Digiday in 2011, he was digital editor at Adweek for six years. He’s spent two decades in digital media.

Richard Askam spent 30 years working in the Wine Business before he took a career turn in 2010 to launch the first personalised champagne gifts in the UK as an antidote to the commoditisation of the wine market in the UK. Ultimately, this lead him to the doors of Coca-Cola where he created and executed the online ShareaCoke campaign across Europe in 2014. Over the following 2 years, Richard created similarly successful personalised campaigns for the likes of Unilever, Barclays, Vodafone and McVities before becoming a renowned full time speaker, debuting as a TED Talker in 2017 and he has worked extensively across the world for the likes of HP, Xerox, Canon and many more. Richard is a master of conversation, an invaluable skill in a world where businesses have to adapt to the conversation of their customers, and over the last few years has become an accomplished host and MC for business events both online and in person!

Jess has over 20 years content production experience working for a number of national and international publishers and media companies. Her expertise ranges from creating and developing conference programmes to social media, blogs and targeted email campaigns to increase and drive engagement for business audiences. More recently, she has been involved in assisting publishers on developing new revenue streams through licensing and content-driven solutions and opportunities.